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The red-haired Guardian Hubbard visualizes so vividly is a kind of ideal mother, who
also functions as his muse and is the source of his astoundingly rapid writing. Hubbard
loves her but reassures himself that his Guardian does not control him. In all things, he
is the controlling force. She seems to be an artifact of the inuence of Aleister Crowley.
Jack Parsons had said that Hubbard called his Guardian “the Empress.”
His fear of hypnotism is quite striking. He was an accomplished stage hypnotist, a
skill he displayed at a meeting of a group of sci- fans in Los Angeles, when he put
nearly everyone in the audience into a trance, and persuaded one of them that he was
holding a pair of miniature kangaroos in the palm of his hand. He also once tried to
hypnotize Sara’s mother, after she had a stroke, to persuade her to leave her money to
him. But then he would accuse Sara of hypnotizing him in his sleep.
If one looks behind the Armations to the conditions they are meant to correct, one
sees a man who is ashamed of his tendency to fabricate personal stories, who is
conicted about his sexual needs, and who worries about his mortality. He has a
predatory view of women but at the same time fears their power to humiliate him.
The third and nal section of this document is titled “The Book.” It contains a
checklist of personal goals and compliments he pays to himself, but it is also a portrait
of the superman that he wishes to be. He does make mention of an actual book—he calls
it One Commandment—that seems to be a reference to Excalibur. “It freed you forever
from the fears of the material world and gave you material control over people,” he
writes.
You are radiant like sunlight.
You can read music.
You are a magnificent writer who has thrilled millions.
Ability to drop into a trance state at will.
Lack of necessity of following a pulp pattern.
You did a fine job in the Navy. No one there is now “out to get you.”
You are psychic.
You do not masturbate.
You do not know anger. Your patience is infinite.
Snakes are not dangerous to you. There are no snakes in the bottom of your bed.
You believe implicitly in God. You have no doubts of the All Powerful. You believe your Guardian perfectly.
The judge in the Armstrong suit, where this document was presented as evidence,
oered his own amateur diagnosis of Hubbard’s personality in a crushing decision
against the church:
The organization is clearly schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be a reection of its
founder LRH. The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history,
background, and achievements. The writings and documents in evidence additionally reflect his egoism, greed, avarice,
lust for power, and vindictiveness and aggressiveness against persons perceived by him to be disloyal or hostile. At the